Protect Yourself, Before Facebook Gets Hacked

2/21/2013 3:34PM

If Facebook were to be hacked, a cache of personal information like credit cards and birthdays from a billion users could end up in the wrong hands. Credit.com chairman Adam Levin joins digits with tips on how to protect your information. Photo: Facebook.

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... I ... how do you protect your credit if your Facebook account gets hacked welcome to Digits I'm Simon Constable we got out of Lebanon from Credit book on to tell us the chance us ... thank you very much for being with us up here ... what what the fuss fuss won't forget what does my Facebook and have to do with my credits ... well the biggest problem is that there's a lot of information it's given on your Facebook account ... you get that ... other people given him as a result it makes it easy or overtime for identity thieves to cobble together what they need in order to recreate you ... can go out to commit identity theft ... which will definitely impact you ... I have some pretty ... easy ways to test out of town ... the snafu with the the the the ... credit freeze if you like aam bite changing some things on your Facebook profile even if you don't want ... let's go let's go let's go through some of ... okay so it would enable can do when I'm I'm I'm Simon cost for sure you could you could change the name of little new treats the name you can put it nickname and it's anything that you can do in order not to allow someone ... to actually begin to create building blocks that they can recreate you ... in your name is a critical part ... of the song I'd like to be something my cabinet are now ... one of a pasta possible said Ryan Saga again h right ... what what he did I know people have this obsession about getting their age or online ... at different sites Facebook has one of them ... you can if you have been desperately to get birthday wishes every year and then get the month ... and the day ... you don't have to give you were given different ... so if you're a little younger a little older than you really are the world won't change and you can still get your birthday Greek point ended up on a different Dhaka stock would be about what is the one on location ... well this is probably that the people who understands or something called geo tagging and sits down with photographs ... and there's ways that you can disable the geo tagging if you don't ... it has longitude and latitude and it will ultimately lead some wonder where the photo was taken ... a lot of people of the photos in her home and say ... here's my new piece of art but it didn't ... do that right you can do that like diamonds example and Ifo you can actually go to settings Privacy location services turn it off digital cameras like their ways the term in office what about that some ... of the of the deal to close the town ... yesterday the man Utd beat you with credible I really never activated and I have a one page out but I've never posted anything on that people talk to each other ... who I know ... but I never say anything so I'm ok you can deactivate ... and you might miss a great line in the karate kid when he says ... best walk ... when no there well if you're not there or ... they can hatch ... right I love the you've also got some other piece of advice and of those on credit from the Ex thingy ran much